Twitter

On the Twitter homepage (http://www.twitter.com) is the following explanation: "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and coworkers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"

The question is whether "What are you doing?" is a question worth asking lab managers and their colleagues? Is it just me or does the question imply: Stop what you're doing and turn your attention toward me the twitterer. But, heh, I'm still uninitiated. If you're not, tell me what value Twitter serves you work wise. The social stuff, like "I'm heading over to Starbucks for a latte, want to join me," I get.

Blogs, Discussion Boards, Wikis...

In the current issue of Lab Manager Magazine, Gloria Metrick provides an overview of the blogs, discussion boards, Wikis, and online social networking and data sharing sites available to laboratory professionals. (http://www.labmanager.com/articles.asp?ID=203)

"We have already seen that new technologies come and go, but good content and good connections seem to be what keep people interested in coming to a site and remaining part of it. A site that cannot provide useful content on a consistent basis is just not that interesting, no matter how cutting edge it is," says Metrick.

Are there sites you have found with particularly useful content? Are they research, career or socially focused? Care to share?

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